Russia Shuts Off Gas Exports to Finland

Russia Shuts Off Gas Exports to Finland
Pipes at the Gasum plant in Raikkola, Imatra, Finland, on May 12, 2022. Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images
Nicholas Dolinger
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Russia has cut off gas exports to neighboring Finland on Saturday after the Nordic country refused to pay Russian gas supplies in roubles. The move also comes at the same time as Finland is applying to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

On Friday, the Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom gave notice to its Finnish equivalent Gasum, saying that natural gas supplies will be cut off to Finland on Saturday at 7:00 a.m. local time.